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Comment number 899.

Realist15th August 2012 - 19:32

Having read through all the comments on here from the many non smokers i have decided to quit smoking, ........now who's up for paying 33% income tax instead of 20%, thats what it will cost us, but hey at least no one will be smoking anymore, yeah lets stop all those "nicotine druggies" they don't put anything into the economy do they. !!!!

Comment number 617.

echtdampfer15th August 2012 - 11:28

WELL DONE AUSTRALIA!I am an ex-smoker and was on up to 60 a day until a well meaning friend who worked in a pathology lab showed me a cancerous lung that had been removed from a smoker. In my opinion if cigarettes must be sold it should be in packets with sickeningly graphic pictures and on prescription only. Smokers are, after all drug addicts!

Comment number 612.

Jon D15th August 2012 - 11:24

581.I have managed to quit smoking and am in no way defending it, but I have to correct you about the cost of smokers to the UK Treasury.

Smokers cost the NHS £1.7 billion/year, but this is far outweighed by Tax on tobacco generating approximately £10 billion/year (10% of entire NHS budget!). And not forgetting on average smokers die 5 years younger so there are savings in pension payouts too!

Comment number 590.

annylou15th August 2012 - 11:13

Lots of small changes are being made to erode the pleasure of smoking - not being able to smoke in public, not being able to smoke in pubs etc....I'm an ex smoker now thanks to these measures. It is more effective than educaiton, preaching or non smokers making supercilious smug comments, or going on about fast food and alcohol. Anything that achieves a non smoking world is a good thing.

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